Anyone seen this??

[IM_Riktar]

While I am not ready to point fingers at anyone I have started considering the following:

The whole thing could be put to rest by an official statement from Matrox on this site, The main (MURC) site or on Matrox's own web page.

If Matrox does put out something official that echoes what Elie received and the site doesn't go back up, well then, it looks like the owner of the site would have some explaining to do.

I think the letter that Elie received from Matrox was the only one that could be sent out by Matrox under the circumstances. I mean really,, did you expect Matrox to say anything else? ",,,,, yah we want the site and will put the squeeze on this little pipsqueak to get what we want,,,,,,,"

Until then I think the ball is in Matrox's court. Silence on their part can only hurt them.

[IM_Riktar]

I agree with you. Matrox is under no obligation to reply anywhere regarding this matter. But it would serve to their benefit to respond to the news regarding this whole affair.

The thought of replying on a MURC site would serve to get the word out on a broader scale since many Matrox customers frequent the MURC. I usually hit Desktop Video World first, the MURC second, and then Matrox's own official site for news updates, drivers, etc.

[Elie]

Hey Jeff, Define middle aged old fart

I'm middle aged if 65 is the normal life span of the typical human being

Cheers,
Elie

[jeff b]

"Holy Cow!"
-Phil Rizuto (former NY Yankees baseball player, working for 'the money store' in a TV ad)

What is reality? Is it something that's there before we find it, or is it whatever we all come to agree it is? Perhaps this is why so many people will be patient and wait to find out what 'the other side' might be after something turns up that they don't particularly want to agree with. My usual tactic, on the other hand, is to agreeably join in and push the new idea to ridiculous lengths, knowing that if there IS another side, it will then come rushing in with the force of a tidal wave! This is called "Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves".

Elie: those tweaks and settings were always necessary with Mystique220/RRS, which I haven't had in the machine for about 10 months. The generic 1394 / MSP6 setup runs fine without that 'tailoring', at least on my machine so far.

Patrick: posting in a thread like this is much more fun than having no kneecaps to break. Where are you?

Doc: Am I the only middle aged old fart in this thread? I can't do this by myself!

Chris: Vent, man, VENT! After all those years of treating those jokers like they were really nice guys at heart?... c'mon! This thread has the potential of being the longest one on the board this year!

In other news:
I went out and bought a new Jeep. The first thing I did was to drill a big hole in the rear quarter for the antenna to my ham radio. My wife just stood in the doorway with her hands on her hips, shaking her head. Now I just drive around a lot while talking on the radio, instead of shooting video. It's really pitiful how I've lapsed. Maybe after the new-ness has worn off, I'll start shooting video while I drive around...

- Jeff B

[jeff b]

Elie, I did not know that.

We-e-e-ell then, O.M., I'm sure that you'll remember the famous (and oft repeated) words of Chester A. Riley: "What a revoltin' development THIS is!" I can imagine him sitting in the main offices of Matrox saying something like that, right about now.

Or, perhaps, Don Knotts on the Tonight show, when asked by Steve Allen if he was nervous.

Or how about Jack Benny putting his hand up to the side of his face and turning his head slightly.

- Jeff B

[Greebe]

I think Matrox is turning nVidese, I think it's turning nVidese, I really think so!

[Brian Ellis]

Jeff

Guess I must be past middle aged, 'cos my destiny is to be shot by a jealous husband when I'm 100. However, my farts are fresh every day.

73

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Brian (the terrible)

[jeff b]

Here are the lyrics to "Matrox", sung to the tune of the Beatles' "Her Majesty":

Matrox has a pretty nice card,
but it does need a lot of care.

Matrox has a pretty nice card,
but the software (I have to say);

always has a glitch here and there,
and it needs a lot of tender loving care...

Matrox has a pretty nice card;
someday I might make it mine.


- Jeff B

[jeff b]

...and here's another one called "Totally Pissed", sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb":

Matrox (matrox… matrox… matrox…)
Is there anybody IN there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on now.
You know I’m feeling down
Can’t you ease my pain
And get me up and running again

New patch (new patch… new patch… new patch…)
You need some information first?
Well here’s the basic facts:
Can you tell me how this works?

There is no gain, you are defeating
The whole purpose of your existence.
Software is coming through in waves
The picture moves, but I can’t hear what the people are saying.
When I had a raptor, I got my stuff out
I floated on air like a balloon.
But now I’ve got a feeling once again
I can’t explain, you do not understand
This is not what I want
I have become totally pissed.

Okay (okay… okay… okay…)
Just a little tweak here.
There’ll be no more… (AAAAAARGH!!!!!)
Now I feel a little sick.
Can you fix this?
I wanna believe it’s working good.
Maybe I can limp through this project
C’mon, it’s time this worked!

There is no gain, you are defeating
The whole purpose of your existence.
Software is coming through in waves
The picture moves, but I can’t hear what the people are saying.
When I first got into this
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
Of what this thing was supposed to do
I cannot put my finger on it now
The thing don’t work, the dream is gone
I have become… totally pissed


- Jeff B

[Greebe]

I called the # listed on rt2000.com site. They're known as Picture Perfect out of Cleveland OH. Lets see what they say when my call is returned. Anyone in that neck of the woods if you would call this might help.

[Riddek]

jeff b,
I can already picture the video for "Totally Pissed". Can we expect to see it posted here anytime soon? Look out, Weird Al!

[jeff b]

Riddeck: Don't think it hasn't crossed my mind to try to impinge on Weird Al Yankovic's territory... many times.

I did have a radio show (taped) at the local community access station here in Worcester (WCUW), back in the late 70's thru 81, and I did do a couple of altered lyrics songs in one or two of those shows. Mostly, though, the show was more like a Firesign Theater type of thing and the music that I did was original stuff. That was preceded by a similar format TV show I did on local community access cable 13, using a black and white Sony portable with the shoulder strap on the reel to reel recording unit, back in '77 and '78. Those were the days when using someone else's copyrighted material wasn't the big sin it is today...

Honestly, though, Weird Al is the king. His creme de la creme was singing the lyrics to "Beverly Hillbillies" to the tune of Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" in the movie "UHF". Who could EVER top that?

In other news:
I was just wondering where the name 'Matrox' came from... I mean, it sounds a lot like some kind of stomach antacid concoction, doesn't it? It also rhymes with 'Pet Rocks', which was also the tongue in cheek name of the oil company (Petrox) that financed the ship looking for the island in the 1976 remake of "King Kong".

...but I digress...

Has anybody had any direct contact with the guy who started all this brouhaha?

- Jeff B

[dZeus]

NOT AGAIN!!!!

It's MattRocks.

The name is a combination of the last names of both our owners (Matic and Trottier).

Ma from Matic, Tro from Trottier. Then add an "x"

No it isn't pronounced May-trocks. Fortunately!

(just like Linux isn't pronounced as line-ux (as in Pine-apple), but as lin-ux (or was it leenux??)).

[Greebe]

It's LeeNukes

[Riddek]

Jeff B,
That is so cool! Very "Wanye's World". That's exactly the type of stuff I would do if I had the equipment.

A few years back a few friends and I entered a local radio station (Mix 99.9) contest called "Show Us Your Mix". The goal was to expose the Mix 99.9 call letters to as many people as possible.

I borrowed a beat up camcorder from a friend and decided to make a short film called "Deuce Ventura: Sign Detective".

The ingenious, Oscar caliber plot was that the Mix 99.9 call letters had somehow come to life and ran away. The station hired Deuce to track 'em down bring 'em back.

We had 6 people wear big cardboard signs spelling out the call letters. Yours truly was Deuce, with a gallon of gel and a bad Hawaiian shirt. We filmed at various touristy locals in downtown Toronto.

I edited the video "on the fly" with a cheap VCR and my old Macintosh Quadra 840AV, adding in sound effects, music and credits. It was definately a hack job, but we had a lot of fun doing it.

We ended up winning second prize- $1,100 bucks and got a lot of promo airtime on the station. No Oscar, though. But what do you expect, our entire budget was less than what Speilberg blows on breakfast.

Oh, my kingdom for a RT2000 and a digital camcorder..... What I could do with that kind of equipment. Someday.....

ps- I thought I was the only person that saw UHF. Everyone I've asked has never heard of it. I love that movie! It was hilarious. I loved Michael Richards as Stanley Spadowski. I definately have to get that DVD. "I waaaant my DVD........"